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| #2191 | | Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence.
-- Dijkstra
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| #2192 | | TeX is potentially the most significant invention in typesetting in this
century. It introduces a standard language for computer typography, and in
terms of importance could rank near the introduction of the Gutenberg press.
-- Gordon Bell
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| #2193 | | "Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even
one which cannot be justified on any other grounds."
-- J. Finnegan, USC.
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| #2194 | | That does not compute.
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| #2195 | | ... that the notions of "hardware", and "software" should be extended by
the notion of LIVEWARE - being that which produces software for use on
hardware. This produces an obvious extension to the concept of MONITORS.
A liveware monitor is a person dedicated to the task of ensuring that the
liveware does not interfere with the real-time processes, invoking the
REAL-TIME EXECUTIONER to delete liveware that adversely affects ...
-- Linden and Wihelminalaan
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| #2196 | | "That's right; the upper-case shift works fine on the screen, but
they're not coming out on the damn printer... Hold? Sure, I'll hold."
-- e.e. cummings last service call
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| #2197 | | That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
really hate is lousy programmers.
-- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
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| #2198 | | The "cutting edge" is getting rather dull.
-- Andy Purshottam
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| #2199 | | The 11 is for people with the pride of a 10 and the pocketbook of an 8.
-- R.B. Greenberg [referring to PDPs?]
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| #2200 | | The absence of labels [in ECL] is probably a good thing.
-- T. Cheatham
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